Thursday we went to Black Banana. We left about 5am from here with our bikes, then got to Black Banana Junction around 6. There we parked our bikes and walked about 3 hours to Black Banana. I had walked through Black Banana before on the way to Baramita, and it hardly gets preached to so i thought it would be a good place to take Gary, the new brother here, the one from Canada that’s here with his wife. She didn’t come with us, but he really wanted to go.
We preached to a couple of hours and met some super nice people. most of them are there from other parts of Guyana, several from Brazil and several from Venezuela. I think for the first time since i was in Guyana I heard a worldly person thanking us for leaving our families and friends and homes to come and preach to them. Although I’m sure many others feel that way, it was nice to actually hear it. I went to one house and there was a couple people there that i had met in Kaituma and in Ridge, and they set up buckets and benches to sit on and I gave a little talk and they were super good listeners and were asking great questions.
When I was done, Roland (another brother here) and Gary were sitting beside me since it was the last house to preach at. We were about to get up to go and the guys told us "just now, just now." and motioned for us to stay seated. About 10 minutes later we were invited into the other room where there were 3 plates of steaming rice and a big bowl of Labba Curry. Labba is a really good tasting animal. It’s basically a big rodent, but really good. We could barely finish the food cause there was so much, but we all cleaned our plates. We had only planned on eating the bread we had brought, but the rice and curry was a nice surprise. We walked back to our bikes with a full stomachs, and good memories from Black Banana. We got back home around 2:30 and took naps, it was a good day.
